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. >> surely, fines osama bin laden surely passing civil rights legislation, as lyndon johnson did, and surely defeating nazis, waa much more form it able task than taking on the gun lobby. this is a turning point in this country. and the president, is going to have to to do more than just make a speech about it, this is one of the best speeches i heard him deliver. but it will take more than that from the white house, he will have to get his hands dirty. lou: exciting when you hear a man talk truth to power like that. >> it soups like he was reading it -- it looked likely was reading it he scripted those, i think any time get into comparing anything to naziism, to gag like thatto -- going likn gone too far, talking about law abiding americans, i think that is about as far off base as you can get lou: steve? >> well, i don't disagree with what he is saying, i don't like language, like the gun lobby as if they are the enemy or the cause of newtown, and i don't like the accusation that president obama wants to take away people's guns, there is good ideas on both sides, let's have a little
. >> surely, fines osama bin laden surely passing civil rights legislation, as lyndon johnson did, and surely defeating nazis, waa much more form it able task than taking on the gun lobby. this is a turning point in this country. and the president, is going to have to to do more than just make a speech about it, this is one of the best speeches i heard him deliver. but it will take more than that from the white house, he will have to get his hands dirty. lou: exciting when you hear a man...
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lyndon johnson. his reply is no, i'm not leaving this hospital without mrs. kennedy. they said well mrs. kennedy won't leave without her husband's body. johnson says well then we will go back to air force one and i'll wait there for her and the body. but i'm not leaving dallas without her. and when she gets back to the plane, he really wants her to be standing next to him in that famous photo, when he's taking the oath of office, as a symbol of continuity, as a symbol of stability. >> rose: so he goes to the plane. he knows that she is going to come with the body. what is the first communication, direct communication between the first lady and the new president? >> johnson wants to make a private telephone call to robert kennedy. and to make this private call he goes with his secretary maria familiarer into the president's bedroom. shuts the door and makes this call to washington to robert kennedy. and as he's doing that, the coffin comes on board, followed by mrs. kennedy. and the kennedy aides. the
lyndon johnson. his reply is no, i'm not leaving this hospital without mrs. kennedy. they said well mrs. kennedy won't leave without her husband's body. johnson says well then we will go back to air force one and i'll wait there for her and the body. but i'm not leaving dallas without her. and when she gets back to the plane, he really wants her to be standing next to him in that famous photo, when he's taking the oath of office, as a symbol of continuity, as a symbol of stability. >>...
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we both loved lyndon johnson. i don't think he ever read two words on second-term overreach. probably should have. but the point is that he is very aware of what has gone before and he knows that if you don't read all these books about previous presidents, previous leaders, really in world history, you're limiting yourself to yore own personal experience and that is pretty bad. >> is there a particular president, doris, with whom this president identifies the most or respects the most? >> well, i think when he first came into office, obviously, lincoln mattered a great deal to him. i mean, in part probably because the emancipation proclamation, the end of slavery, and he's the first african-american president, almost like closing that circle. but i think as his term went on he was reading about franklin roosevelt, teld di roosevelt. i think there's a sense when the problems change the president that you look back to changes as well. otherwise, we historians would be useful if we didn't help other know what i mean the future. >> one example of this in history is that lincoln a
we both loved lyndon johnson. i don't think he ever read two words on second-term overreach. probably should have. but the point is that he is very aware of what has gone before and he knows that if you don't read all these books about previous presidents, previous leaders, really in world history, you're limiting yourself to yore own personal experience and that is pretty bad. >> is there a particular president, doris, with whom this president identifies the most or respects the most?...
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as lyndon johnson had a vision of the great society. it wasn't anti-republican. it was his vision. john kennedy, the new frontier. i think the president from the way i was taking it was saying i think b this is the vision america needs to go in. but it wasn't for just four years. he said we're not talking four months, four years, or 400 years. >> that's exactly right. and you played the clip talking about how the social safety net allows us to take risks and not fear the failure. other countries don't have that. i spent a lot of time in india where there was such a fear of taking on new initiatives and being entrepreneurial because there wasn't that same safety net in place. that is the progressive vision. let's be real. paul ryan, here's a guy who supports privatizing social security, voucherizing medicare. so the president is not putting up a strawman argument. these are exactly the principles that republicans support. and also republicans have never been comfortable with social security and medicare. they use deficits and debt reduction as an excuse to chip away at it. but it is
as lyndon johnson had a vision of the great society. it wasn't anti-republican. it was his vision. john kennedy, the new frontier. i think the president from the way i was taking it was saying i think b this is the vision america needs to go in. but it wasn't for just four years. he said we're not talking four months, four years, or 400 years. >> that's exactly right. and you played the clip talking about how the social safety net allows us to take risks and not fear the failure. other...
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district judge sarah hughes who was summoned to duty aboard air force one with lyndon johnson following a national tragedy, for the fourth time in our nation's history a woman has sworn in either the president or the vice president of the united states. i had a chance to sit down with justice sotomayor this week to talk about her historic moment. >> i was thinking just a couple of days ago if i think back of when i was a kid, which of the two events would have seemed more improbable to me. i realized each one was so far fetched that i couldn't have imagined either. >> supreme court, swearing in the vice president? >> supreme court or swearing in the vice president in front of the nation and the world. >> does it make you anxious? >> anxiety is not the word. >> and you talked to her, soledad, about how she's perceived on the bench. >> yeah. and she's considered to be very tough and she doesn't really mind or care what people have -- have that analysis of how she is on the bench. here's what she told me. >> i think the noblest profession in the world is lawyering and if a lawyer showed up
district judge sarah hughes who was summoned to duty aboard air force one with lyndon johnson following a national tragedy, for the fourth time in our nation's history a woman has sworn in either the president or the vice president of the united states. i had a chance to sit down with justice sotomayor this week to talk about her historic moment. >> i was thinking just a couple of days ago if i think back of when i was a kid, which of the two events would have seemed more improbable to...
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lyndon johnson in the civil rights acts. it look at the pushing of the environmental movement -- you look at the pushing of the environmental movement, going forward with the space program and trying to put science and the government. -- in the government. i can go on for an hour with accomplishments that the baby boomers have done. it has some validity to it. it seems that they don't have that art of negotiation. there is a spoiled nest. -- spoiled-ness. maybe we spoiled our kids. by the time our kids were born, there was the era of dr. spock and parents indulging their children to such an end -- a degree that we had high youth nemployment. people do not want to do the low-wage jobs because they feel entitled to more than a minimum wage job. the question of the parenting of the boomers is interesting and relevant. part of the boomer experience is the vietnam war. that divided the country. anytime i write on vietnam, i get myself in trouble. you cannot be objective about it. this group of boomers on one side of the equation
lyndon johnson in the civil rights acts. it look at the pushing of the environmental movement -- you look at the pushing of the environmental movement, going forward with the space program and trying to put science and the government. -- in the government. i can go on for an hour with accomplishments that the baby boomers have done. it has some validity to it. it seems that they don't have that art of negotiation. there is a spoiled nest. -- spoiled-ness. maybe we spoiled our kids. by the time...
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there are people who say obama is not a lyndon johnson. he doesn't know how to maneuver. >> i think he has learned a great deal during his first term. i don't want to sound patronizing in saying that. i've learned a great deal from watching his first term. but i think you already see a greater depth and sophistication in his approach. i also think you are seeing on the gun issue, on the immigration issue, on the fiscal cliff issue a new wariness by republicans of the fire brands in their ranks who just want to stop everything. and i think that there is a new awareness that the american people don't want grid lock. they don't want sclerosis. they don't want this hyperpartisanship. and one thing i think that president obama has demonstrated is an ability to reach across the aisle to try to invite more cooperation, but he's now tempering that with a new firmness, as we saw on the fiscal cliff that i think will serve him in good step. >> al gore, always a pleasure. >> thank you. >>> and we will be back. [ man ] i've been out there most of my l
there are people who say obama is not a lyndon johnson. he doesn't know how to maneuver. >> i think he has learned a great deal during his first term. i don't want to sound patronizing in saying that. i've learned a great deal from watching his first term. but i think you already see a greater depth and sophistication in his approach. i also think you are seeing on the gun issue, on the immigration issue, on the fiscal cliff issue a new wariness by republicans of the fire brands in their...
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we have the congressman from dallas leading a mob protested against lyndon johnson when he was jfk's running mate. some of you may have heard a lot of people who warned kennedy not to go to dallas before that fateful trip in 1963, you may have heard john f. kennedy sage jacklin that morning while we are headed into -- and what bill and i are trying to do is to present a portrait of the environment in dallas. when you delve into each of these stories and some of them are quite fascinating you have the wealthiest men in the world, h. l. hunt bankrolling a radio program that was devoted to taking down john f. kennedy and when kennedy propose to have the medicare program hl hunt's radio announcers came on the air hundreds of stations across the country billions of listeners telling them that this will lead to government -- will make the present day medical czar which i think is a russian word, czar. every american citizen so i finally get to answer your question. when you have this kind of intensity like we saw in dallas we wanted to immerse ourselves in the readers and the environment a
we have the congressman from dallas leading a mob protested against lyndon johnson when he was jfk's running mate. some of you may have heard a lot of people who warned kennedy not to go to dallas before that fateful trip in 1963, you may have heard john f. kennedy sage jacklin that morning while we are headed into -- and what bill and i are trying to do is to present a portrait of the environment in dallas. when you delve into each of these stories and some of them are quite fascinating you...
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before obama the previous crowd estimate record was 1.2 million who came out for lbj, lyndon johnson's inaugural back in '65. we'll be right back. in america today we're running out of a vital resource we need to compete on the global stage. what we need are people prepared for the careers of our new economy. by 2025 we could have 20 million jobs without enough college graduates to fill them. that's why at devry university, we're teaming up with companies like cisco to help make sure everyone is ready with the know-how we need for a new tomorrow. [ male announcer ] make sure america's ready. make sure you're ready. at devry.edu/knowhow. ♪ prego?! but i've been buying ragu for years. [ thinking ] i wonder what other questionable choices i've made? [ club scene music ] [ sigh of relief ] [ male announcer ] choose taste. choose prego. [ sigh of relief ] officemax can help you drive suand down.s down... use your maxperks card and get a 10-ream case of officemax multiuse paper for just 4.99 after maxperks rewards. find thousands of big deals now... at officemax. >>> welcome back to "hardb
before obama the previous crowd estimate record was 1.2 million who came out for lbj, lyndon johnson's inaugural back in '65. we'll be right back. in america today we're running out of a vital resource we need to compete on the global stage. what we need are people prepared for the careers of our new economy. by 2025 we could have 20 million jobs without enough college graduates to fill them. that's why at devry university, we're teaming up with companies like cisco to help make sure everyone...
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lyndon johnson said government can cure poverty and the experts know how and we created welfare payments so government grow but now those programs that need investment didn't work americans for lifting themselves out of poverty and their own on government was small but then big t government stepped in and progress stopped we taught people to be dependent the bourse stayed for. bill clinton put this on a better track through spending he did not want totaugt reform, republicans force timber that was good and the economy grew and we balanced the budget to a sustainable future but then-presidentbig bush happened 90,000 new regulators and new social programs he created a whole new cabinet departments and bail out banks and car companies that i was elected and i need a ladder. now we're back to $20,000 per personm $80,000 is what we spend but i'm getting0. dizzy we cannot pay for people who retire so this week i had an epiphany what is wrong with spending in the clinton years? widely need to spend so much more? we do not face greater challenges as when he wasa president and that gets uswe back
lyndon johnson said government can cure poverty and the experts know how and we created welfare payments so government grow but now those programs that need investment didn't work americans for lifting themselves out of poverty and their own on government was small but then big t government stepped in and progress stopped we taught people to be dependent the bourse stayed for. bill clinton put this on a better track through spending he did not want totaugt reform, republicans force timber that...
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abram dirkson who helped lyndon johnson pass the civil rights act. an all--white community. but he did it because it was the right thing for the country. look, we come from a part of the country where people have worked together and corporated together. during the 14 years that bob chief of staff, tip o'neill was the speaker. ronald reagan was the president. during that eight-year period they all worked together to fix social security and the tax cuts which they passed during the recession during 1982 to 1985. they all worked together. they came together and they made progress. >> did the politics change from michael to gingrich? >> well, they changed in style i would say that. but look, newt was speaker when bill clinton was president and we got to a balanced budget. and they did it by talking with one another, working with one another and ultimately compromise. and i think the style -- >> look, newt's style was different than bob michael's style. but in the end they did what was good and right for the country. >> when did you first meet bob michael and how did you become c
abram dirkson who helped lyndon johnson pass the civil rights act. an all--white community. but he did it because it was the right thing for the country. look, we come from a part of the country where people have worked together and corporated together. during the 14 years that bob chief of staff, tip o'neill was the speaker. ronald reagan was the president. during that eight-year period they all worked together to fix social security and the tax cuts which they passed during the recession...
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when republicans couldn't beat lyndon johnson after the kennedy assassination they ran barry goldwater. when democrats couldn't beat richard nixon they ran george mcgovern. not that they didn't believe in those men.
when republicans couldn't beat lyndon johnson after the kennedy assassination they ran barry goldwater. when democrats couldn't beat richard nixon they ran george mcgovern. not that they didn't believe in those men.
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claudia taylor, lady bird, agreed to marry lyndon johnson. we don't think of our presidents as young men in love, some times celebrities, we don't think of them as young men in love. particularly we don't think of this president that way. we think of lbj as the kind of president who was deliberately crass as a strategic tactic. he famously made people constrers wiconverse while he sat on a toilet. whose most famous presidential recording was him making an incredible phone call from the white house to order himself some pants from a man in texas. you have heard the recording of lbj ordering his pants over the phone, haven't you? oh, please tell me you have heard this recording. >> i want a couple, maybe three of the light brown, kind of -- almost powder color like a powder on a lady's face. and then there were some grerngs -- green, blue, black, about six pairs to wear in the evening when i come in from work. and i need about half an inch too tight in the waist. >> do you recall the exact size, i just want it to be, to get them right for you.
claudia taylor, lady bird, agreed to marry lyndon johnson. we don't think of our presidents as young men in love, some times celebrities, we don't think of them as young men in love. particularly we don't think of this president that way. we think of lbj as the kind of president who was deliberately crass as a strategic tactic. he famously made people constrers wiconverse while he sat on a toilet. whose most famous presidential recording was him making an incredible phone call from the white...
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both lyndon johnson and dwight eisenhower topped everyone here, they reached the low 70s. they were at 71% and 73% respentively. >> that's pretty impressive. >> those numbers would never exit tod exist today. >>> thousands of people are starting to descend this morning. >> never too early to get ready. this morning, though, we'll look past the oath of office to the next four years. the issues, the plans, the prospects. as joe johns reports, some of the most notorious scandals also happened in the second term. >> reporter: president obama has high hopes for the next four years. >> i intend to carry out the agenda that i campaigned on. >> reporter: if he wants to reach that goal, history says a second-term president has got to move fast. >> power does seep away from the presidency very quickly in the second term. >> second term presidents and their congresses have two different clocks and the president's clock is now moving towards history and the longer view and he can take more risks. the congressional clock is still going according to the next election. >> reporter: but h
both lyndon johnson and dwight eisenhower topped everyone here, they reached the low 70s. they were at 71% and 73% respentively. >> that's pretty impressive. >> those numbers would never exit tod exist today. >>> thousands of people are starting to descend this morning. >> never too early to get ready. this morning, though, we'll look past the oath of office to the next four years. the issues, the plans, the prospects. as joe johns reports, some of the most notorious...
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. >> and let's not forget, lyndon johnson and the vietnam war. one of the things we know absolutely for sure, is that something is going to go wrong in the second term. it always does. always. sometimes you can foresee it as it's coming, could be a natural disaster, a terrorist attack, it could be -- who knows what, i think that we're pretty safe in deciding that there's not going to be a sex scandal in the obama family. >> george bush it was the financial crisis. >> exactly. >> but i -- >> katrina. >> and iraq. >> the idea is how they handle it, how they handle it. >> i'm going to go out on a limb. i think the worst may be behind him. he's actually got more momentum going in than most presidents do, his numbers are actually going up. the k34e's getting a little bit better, the wars are winding down, he does have a shot. i think the most important thing i would say is, i think he's found his game. >> you look at his popularity as compared to other presidents, it's relatively low. >> it is. one of the lowest in the past 20, 30 years, the numbers a
. >> and let's not forget, lyndon johnson and the vietnam war. one of the things we know absolutely for sure, is that something is going to go wrong in the second term. it always does. always. sometimes you can foresee it as it's coming, could be a natural disaster, a terrorist attack, it could be -- who knows what, i think that we're pretty safe in deciding that there's not going to be a sex scandal in the obama family. >> george bush it was the financial crisis. >> exactly....
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why would johnson -- the idea that lyndon johnson would tell somebody to kill kennedy is unimaginable. go ahead, your thoughts. >> no, i agree. my whole orientation as a former prosecutor and a writer of true crime books is to focus on the facts. all of the facts show oswald as guilty. there are no facts pointing towards a conspiracy -- >> what's the grassy knoll? >> i do want to get into the second point here. >> sure. >> on why i say there was no conspiracy. let's assume that one of these groups decided to kill the president, which i find prodigiously unlikely, but who knows? anything is possible in life. oswald would have been one of the last people on the face of this earth, chris, whom they would have gone to, to do their bidding for them. not an expert shot. he was a good shot, but not an expert shot. $12 mail order rifle. notoriously unreliable. very unstable. here's a guy, chris, that defected to the soviet union pre-gorbachev, 1959, even today, who in the world defects to russia? he gets over, desperately wants to become a soviet citizen, he's a devout marxist. they turn him
why would johnson -- the idea that lyndon johnson would tell somebody to kill kennedy is unimaginable. go ahead, your thoughts. >> no, i agree. my whole orientation as a former prosecutor and a writer of true crime books is to focus on the facts. all of the facts show oswald as guilty. there are no facts pointing towards a conspiracy -- >> what's the grassy knoll? >> i do want to get into the second point here. >> sure. >> on why i say there was no conspiracy....
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. >> the story told of president lyndon johnson walking with a young aid past some helicopters and the young aide, said to johnson, mr. president, which one is yours? >> they're all mine, boy. that doesn't mean the president will use every helicopter at the same time he still had more than one. if some helicopters sit on the ground f some time, they might be deemed non-essential. the point is all sports teams have benches. just because someone isn't related directly to the life and property, that is the legal standard who gets to stay on the job, doesn't mean they're not performing a useful function for the taxpayer. >> all right. that's a good argument. james freeman, when you look through the numbers, some departments though some more essential than others. the epa, 93% furloughed. only superfund project managers are at work. commerce department, 87% is at home. >> only 87 at commerce? interior, 81%. treasury, 80. look at something like justice. 15% are at home. so. >> that makes sense. justice would be one of those constitutional duties that the government has. commerce, not so much
. >> the story told of president lyndon johnson walking with a young aid past some helicopters and the young aide, said to johnson, mr. president, which one is yours? >> they're all mine, boy. that doesn't mean the president will use every helicopter at the same time he still had more than one. if some helicopters sit on the ground f some time, they might be deemed non-essential. the point is all sports teams have benches. just because someone isn't related directly to the life and...
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lyndon johnson becomes president. and the speculation begins. questions about vietnam are obvious. but what would have happened to the great society if johnson hadn'tpresident in 1963? my next guest tries to answer some of those questions in his book "if kennedy lived." i'm joined by the author of this book, jeff greenfield. you've done this before. you enjoy doing this. >> i do, although i think this is the last one. >> this is the penultimate one? >> i've already started work on a novel where i get to make it all up. >> what if spiro agnew had become president? let's start with the vietnam question. because i want to get to the vietnam question, but i want to make you respond to it after you hear this bite from president kennedy on vietnam at the end of 1962. >> i would hope this would be settled because we want to see a stable government there, carrying on a struggle to maintain its national independen independence. we believe strongly in that. we're not going to withdraw from that effort. my opinion for us to withdraw from that effort would mean a collapse not only of south vie
lyndon johnson becomes president. and the speculation begins. questions about vietnam are obvious. but what would have happened to the great society if johnson hadn'tpresident in 1963? my next guest tries to answer some of those questions in his book "if kennedy lived." i'm joined by the author of this book, jeff greenfield. you've done this before. you enjoy doing this. >> i do, although i think this is the last one. >> this is the penultimate one? >> i've already...
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but if you are a great leader coming have to be like lyndon johnson and you have to cajole and bring people around and sort of put your arm around them and get things done. you have to be like george washington and any other great leaders and the commanding indecisive and shorter. but you also, as john kennedy was in many great leaders work, including franklin roosevelt, you have to be smart and a little bit tough and leadership has many components. i think obama is very strong and some of those components. there are other components as well and figuring out how to intimidate and control congress. neil: this neil: as soon as they heard the news, tea parties had had it with a republican leader that if it is not only ignoring him, but locally by passing them and they are not happy about it. this news that the speakers working with democrats. what you make of these latest developments? >> do and i have been talking about this and he is fundamentally out of step with the vast majority of people. i told you i before the elections in 2010 americans want a leadership and john boehner repres
but if you are a great leader coming have to be like lyndon johnson and you have to cajole and bring people around and sort of put your arm around them and get things done. you have to be like george washington and any other great leaders and the commanding indecisive and shorter. but you also, as john kennedy was in many great leaders work, including franklin roosevelt, you have to be smart and a little bit tough and leadership has many components. i think obama is very strong and some of...
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johnson, eisenhower and truman. another way to see how he stacks up against his predecessors. look at this number. how things going in the country. 49% say things are going well in the country right now. how does that stack up against president bush four years ago? 58%. a higher number for clinton in his second tem and reagan in his second term. >> when you look at how the country is divided, one has to imagine and we've been told, that he's going to talk about a hopeful speech. a unifying speech. but not many more details than that. what kind of statistics do you see when we look at the divisions within the country? >> brand new numbers from cnn/orc. we asked if the country was more deeply divided now than in the past? 76% say yes. only 22% say no. here's another way to visualize it. here's the next number. we ask, do you hope that the the president's policies will succeed. democrats, overwhelmingly said yes. only four out of ten republicans hope that the president's policies will succeed. >> in some way tomorrow,
johnson, eisenhower and truman. another way to see how he stacks up against his predecessors. look at this number. how things going in the country. 49% say things are going well in the country right now. how does that stack up against president bush four years ago? 58%. a higher number for clinton in his second tem and reagan in his second term. >> when you look at how the country is divided, one has to imagine and we've been told, that he's going to talk about a hopeful speech. a...
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when republicans couldn't beat lyndon johnson, they ran barry goldwater, when the democrats couldn't beat richard nixon they ran george mcgovern.
when republicans couldn't beat lyndon johnson, they ran barry goldwater, when the democrats couldn't beat richard nixon they ran george mcgovern.
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that was lyndon johnson. why is it that the government wants to get people on food stamps so badly? because remember this, every time states end up bringing more people on to food stamps, get more money. so everyone has incentives. >> sean: sunny is disagreeing. >> the thing they miss in this whole subject is not just the cost to government, but it's the cost to the people and we keep on going after politicians to try to solve this problem. when we could solve it how my mother solved it. i was on welfare as a child. my mother had a philosophy of you buy what you need. okay. not what you want. that has to be the difference now. >> sean: when you see people that are buying booze and cigarettes and condoms. >> exactly. but when you put it into that scenario, what's missing is the option, the alternative. capitalism. everyone is afraid to sell these people capitalism. if you have the chance -- i chose capitalism. mitt romney ran from it. like a coward from it. >> sean: right here. >> the only thing i learned tonight, people in the government are getting gold stars for signing up people
that was lyndon johnson. why is it that the government wants to get people on food stamps so badly? because remember this, every time states end up bringing more people on to food stamps, get more money. so everyone has incentives. >> sean: sunny is disagreeing. >> the thing they miss in this whole subject is not just the cost to government, but it's the cost to the people and we keep on going after politicians to try to solve this problem. when we could solve it how my mother...
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lyndon johnson in the civil rights acts. it look at the pushing of the youronmental movement -- look at the pushing of the environmental movement, going forward with the space program and trying to put science and the government. -- in the government. i can go on for an hour with accomplishments that the baby boomers have done. it has some validity to it. it seems that they don't have that art of negotiation. there is a spoiled nest. -- spoiled-ness. maybe we spoiled our kids. born, time our kids were there was the era of dr. spock and parents indulging their a deren to such an end -- gree that we had high youth unemployment. people do not want to do the low-wage jobs because they feel entitled to more than a minimum wage job. the question of the parenting of the boomers is interesting and relevant. part of the boomer experience is the vietnam war. that divided the country. anytime i write on vietnam, i get myself in trouble. you cannot be objective about it. this group of boomers on one side of the equation or the other. se
lyndon johnson in the civil rights acts. it look at the pushing of the youronmental movement -- look at the pushing of the environmental movement, going forward with the space program and trying to put science and the government. -- in the government. i can go on for an hour with accomplishments that the baby boomers have done. it has some validity to it. it seems that they don't have that art of negotiation. there is a spoiled nest. -- spoiled-ness. maybe we spoiled our kids. born, time our...
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but if you are a great leader coming have to be like lyndon johnson and you have to cajole and bring people around and sort of put your arm around them and get things done. you have to be like george washington and any other great leaders and the commanding indecisive and shorter. but you also, as john kennedy was in many great leaders work, including franklin roosevelt, you have to be srt and a little bit tough and leadership has many components. i think obama is very strong and some of those components. there are other components as well and figuring out how to intimidate and control congress. intimidate and control congress. neil: this this man is about to be the millionth customer. intimidate and control congress. neil: this would you mind if i go ahead of you? instead we had someone go ahead of him and win fiy thousand dollars. congratulations you are our one millionth customer. that's why ally treats all their customers the same. whether you're the first or the millionth. if your bank doesn't think you're special anymore, you need an ally. ally bank. your money needs an ally. n
but if you are a great leader coming have to be like lyndon johnson and you have to cajole and bring people around and sort of put your arm around them and get things done. you have to be like george washington and any other great leaders and the commanding indecisive and shorter. but you also, as john kennedy was in many great leaders work, including franklin roosevelt, you have to be srt and a little bit tough and leadership has many components. i think obama is very strong and some of those...
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when lyndon johnson was majority leader, he had to use cloture on one occasion. since obama has been president, reid has had to use it hundreds of times. in other words, the republicans have changed the rules. any significant piece of legislation now requires 60 votes. you can't govern effectively under those conditions. what we should have said, if you want to oppose something, go to the floor. talk and talk and talk. but when you're finished, it's going to be 51 votes that makes the decision. >> senator, you heard some of the comments from my radio show. it was all over liberal talk radio today. it's all in the social media. i mean, how much more abuse must the democrats take in this process before they finally adopt meaningful filibuster reform? i mean, we've got, you know, this ruling by the court in washington on some of the appointments of president obama. you can be sure that mitch mcconnell is probably behind closed doors, smiling about that. he is not there to help the president. but the question is why don't the democrats realize what is happening here?
when lyndon johnson was majority leader, he had to use cloture on one occasion. since obama has been president, reid has had to use it hundreds of times. in other words, the republicans have changed the rules. any significant piece of legislation now requires 60 votes. you can't govern effectively under those conditions. what we should have said, if you want to oppose something, go to the floor. talk and talk and talk. but when you're finished, it's going to be 51 votes that makes the decision....
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that's just compared to one that lyndon johnson faced in six years. and since each of those procedurally can take up a week of the senate's time, you quickly see the calendar is eviscerated. you simply can't get appropriation bills done. you can't get authorizing bills done, let alone have a long, lengthy important debate on a major issue facing america. >> senator jeff merkley, oregon. good to have you with us tonight. >> great to be here thinking has to go through, or the 113th has a chance of being just like the 112th. let's follow it. i hope it goes through. that's "the ed show." i'm ed schultz. the rachel maddow show starts right now. good evening. >> good evening. thanks to you at home for joining thus hour. president obama announced on mayday, on may 1st a couple of years ago that osama bin laden had been killed. the president said he had approved a covert mission inside pakistan that resulted in the death of the founder and later of al qaeda, the group that attacked us on september 11th, 2001, which led congress to pass the authorization for u
that's just compared to one that lyndon johnson faced in six years. and since each of those procedurally can take up a week of the senate's time, you quickly see the calendar is eviscerated. you simply can't get appropriation bills done. you can't get authorizing bills done, let alone have a long, lengthy important debate on a major issue facing america. >> senator jeff merkley, oregon. good to have you with us tonight. >> great to be here thinking has to go through, or the 113th...
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but if you are a great leader coming have to be like lyndon johnson and you have to cajole and bring people around and sort of put your arm around them and get things done. you have to be like george washington and any other great leaders and the commanding indecisive and shorter. but you also, as john kennedy was in many great leaders work, including franklin roosevelt you have to be smart and a little bit tough and leadership has many components. i think obama is very strong and some of those components. there are other components as well and figuring out how to intimidate and control congress. we went out and asked people a simple question: how old is the oldest person you've known? we gave people a sticker and had them show us. we learned a lot of us have known someone who's lived well into their 90s. and that's a great thing. but even though we're living longer, one thing that hasn't changed much is the official retirement age. ♪ the question is how do you make sure you have the money you need to enjoy all of these years. ♪ spending the day with my niece. i don't use super p
but if you are a great leader coming have to be like lyndon johnson and you have to cajole and bring people around and sort of put your arm around them and get things done. you have to be like george washington and any other great leaders and the commanding indecisive and shorter. but you also, as john kennedy was in many great leaders work, including franklin roosevelt you have to be smart and a little bit tough and leadership has many components. i think obama is very strong and some of those...
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five days after, president lyndon johnson addressed members of the house and senate. here is a look. have i would not to be gladly standing here today. timereatest leader of our by then struck down foulest deed of our time. fit's gerald kennedy lives on in the immortal words .nd work that he left behind he lives on in the mind and memories of mankind. he lives on in the heart of his countrymen. expressedre sadder to our sense of loss. no words are strong enough to express determination to continue the forward thrust of america that he began. [applause] >> president lyndon b. johnson on november 27, 1963, 5 days --er jfk was assassinated john f. kennedy was assassinated. we will bring you that entire speech tonight at 8:00 eastern. the 60s -- the 60s were different. [laughter] there were a lot of things happening involving race, structure in society. i was suddenly out of the seminary and in new england. rules.ere no things were falling apart. structure, it is very difficult to navigate. i was extremely fortunate to be at holy cross. i was extremely fortunate to ive a
five days after, president lyndon johnson addressed members of the house and senate. here is a look. have i would not to be gladly standing here today. timereatest leader of our by then struck down foulest deed of our time. fit's gerald kennedy lives on in the immortal words .nd work that he left behind he lives on in the mind and memories of mankind. he lives on in the heart of his countrymen. expressedre sadder to our sense of loss. no words are strong enough to express determination to...
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36th president lyndon baines johnson. [video clip] >> were you present at the swearing in? >> yes, pressed against the back wall. you felt so awful. you wanted to shrink from the scene almost. that was my feeling. and we were all called into that cabin. jolted. know, you were i was very conscious that this happened in texas. all of us were. it made things tougher. and then i flew back with them. and as we got off the plane -- well, the helicopter, on the lawn of the white house, the president said go with a lady bird and help are all you can. from 1991.reflection this is the story this morning, the front page of "the washington post" and a photograph of the exact location where president kennedy was killed at the scene of the crime. the author writes -- almost numbingly cited as the end of our innocence. of the chaos and the madness and the rage of the 1960's. the first television president, his death captured on film. the assassination has been ever since the subject of excessive investigation. there is always more to le
36th president lyndon baines johnson. [video clip] >> were you present at the swearing in? >> yes, pressed against the back wall. you felt so awful. you wanted to shrink from the scene almost. that was my feeling. and we were all called into that cabin. jolted. know, you were i was very conscious that this happened in texas. all of us were. it made things tougher. and then i flew back with them. and as we got off the plane -- well, the helicopter, on the lawn of the white house, the...
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but if you are a great leader coming have to be like lyndon johnson and you have to cajole and bring people around and sort of put your arm around them and get things done. you have to be like george washington and any other great leaders and the commanding indecisive and shorter. but you also, as john kennedy was in many great leaders work, including franklin roosevelt, you have to be smart and a little bit tough and leadership has many components. i think obama is very strong and some of those components. there are other components as well and figuring out how to intimidate and control congress. neil: this just in, they are ready to give speaker john boehner hack. >> our last request is too bold . just pick that flight right there. mmm hmmm. give it a few taps, and...it's taken care of. this is pretty easy, and i see it works on hotels too. you bet. now if you like that, press the red button on top. ♪ how did he not see that coming? what's in your wallet? how did he not see that coming? nascar is about excitement. but tracking all the action anhearing everything from our marketin
but if you are a great leader coming have to be like lyndon johnson and you have to cajole and bring people around and sort of put your arm around them and get things done. you have to be like george washington and any other great leaders and the commanding indecisive and shorter. but you also, as john kennedy was in many great leaders work, including franklin roosevelt, you have to be smart and a little bit tough and leadership has many components. i think obama is very strong and some of...
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then getting killed with barry goldwater running against lyndon johnson. the democrats ran moderates in 60, 64, 68, then went wild in 72 the democrats got killed. the party bases get pushed aside for several elections and finally build up steam. the opponents in the iraq war, i believe the republican base will do the same in 2016, they put up with george bush, put up with bob dole, were deeply disappointed by george w. and last year mitt romney. they're going to come loaded for bear for the race for 2016. i predict the hard right is going to take over the republican party in 2016. and the nomination is going to rand paul. you watch. that's hardball for now. "all in" with chris hayes starts right now. >>> good evening from washington, d.c., i'm ezra klein in for the terrific chris hayes, tonight on all in, the cold war may be over, but it doesn't feel like it's all that over. it's getting chilly actually. from the edward snowden situation to russia's treatment of gays and lesbians, u.s./russia relationship is on the rocks. >>> we're learning about another t
then getting killed with barry goldwater running against lyndon johnson. the democrats ran moderates in 60, 64, 68, then went wild in 72 the democrats got killed. the party bases get pushed aside for several elections and finally build up steam. the opponents in the iraq war, i believe the republican base will do the same in 2016, they put up with george bush, put up with bob dole, were deeply disappointed by george w. and last year mitt romney. they're going to come loaded for bear for the...
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then getting killed with barry goldwater running against lyndon johnson. the democrats ran moderates in 60, 64, 68, then went wild in 72 the democrats got killed. the party bases get pushed aside for several elections and finally build up steam. the opponents in the iraq war, i believe the republican base will do the same in 2016, they put up with george bush, put up with bob dole, were deeply disappointed by george w. and last year mitt romney. they're going to come loaded for bear for the race for 2016.
then getting killed with barry goldwater running against lyndon johnson. the democrats ran moderates in 60, 64, 68, then went wild in 72 the democrats got killed. the party bases get pushed aside for several elections and finally build up steam. the opponents in the iraq war, i believe the republican base will do the same in 2016, they put up with george bush, put up with bob dole, were deeply disappointed by george w. and last year mitt romney. they're going to come loaded for bear for the...
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lyndon johnson try to reverse a pledge. and then four months later he said this. >> i've come here to review once again the views of the american government. americans and asians are dying for our world where each people may choose its own path to change. this is the principle for which our ancestors fought in the valleys of pennsylvania. it is a principle for which our sons fight tonight in the jungles of vietnam. vietnam is far away from this campus. we have no territory there. the war is very dirty and brutal and difficult. born into ang men america with promise are on the steaming oil. painful we take this nation? for the sakepower of the people so far away. we fight because we must fight. if we are to live in a world where every country can shape its own destiny and only in such a world will our own freedom be finally secure. histhe war kill of -- killed presidency. he was hoping to run a ke again. hey lbj, how many kids did you kill today? every day hundreds marched in front of the white house. no more. >> you're seei
lyndon johnson try to reverse a pledge. and then four months later he said this. >> i've come here to review once again the views of the american government. americans and asians are dying for our world where each people may choose its own path to change. this is the principle for which our ancestors fought in the valleys of pennsylvania. it is a principle for which our sons fight tonight in the jungles of vietnam. vietnam is far away from this campus. we have no territory there. the war...